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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2005 covers the histo...)
The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2005 covers the history of every player, every team, and every season from 1902 through 2005, with detailed statistics and text summaries, as well as full coverage of this year's exciting pennant race.
-Which team became the first in history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series?
-Who was the only player to pinch-hit a World Series homerun?
-Who became the first to manage five straight pennant winners, and in what years did he do it?
-What 1970s team won a pennant with only one player hitting more than twenty homers, no player driving in eighty runs, no player stealing even ten bases, no player hitting .300, and only one pitcher winning more than fifteen games?
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A fully revised, updated, one-volume statistical history of baseball feautures complete stats for every player and every team year by year, lifetime stats for every player, all-time World Series leaders, every Hall of Fame Rookie of the Year, and more.
The Sports Encyclopedia: Pro Football 1999: 17th Edition
(Beginning in 1974, this book contains complete rosters an...)
Beginning in 1974, this book contains complete rosters and statistics for every player and every year, including the 1998 season and Super Bowl XXXIII in January 1999: John Elway's final game. It's features include:
--Complete rosters for every team, year by year
--Scores for every game played, 1974-1998
--Lifetime statistics for players
--Comprehensive leaders section in offense and defense categories
--Text recalling the great performances, key trades, and personalities
--Features on Hall-of-Famers
--Box scores and summaries for playoff games and Super Bowls.
All the great stories are here: the legendary players -- Taylor, Greene, Staubach, Stabler, Montana, Sanders, and the dream teams -- Noll's Steelers, Shula's Dolphins, Madden's Raiders, Ditka's Bears, Walsh's 49ers, and Johnson's Cowboys.
(A complete baseball history from 1901 through 1996 featur...)
A complete baseball history from 1901 through 1996 features all-time batting and pitching leaders, players' season and lifetime stats, World Series games, no-hitters, MVPs, Triple Crown winners, Hall of Fame members, and classic stories and legends.
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An annual update of a definitive reference source offers baseball statistics and history from 1901 through 1993, featuring year-by-year organization and offering seasonal summaries, players' records, World Series games, and more. 25,000 first printing.
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Offering statistics and facts from the 1901 season through the 1994 season, a new edition of a standard sports reference includes seasonal summaries and every player's totals, along with classic baseball stories and legends.
The Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of Professional Football from 1892 to the Present
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A completely updated edition of a standard reference work offers a comprehensive statistical history of professional football from 1892, including scores of every game from 1920-1993, complete rosters of every team, seasonal statistics for all players, and more.
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A fully revised and updated, one-volume statistical reference work chronicles the history of baseball and includes the complete stats for every player and every team, batting and pitching leaders, and much more.
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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2007 covers the histo...)
The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2007 covers the history of every player, every team, and every season from 1902 through 2006, with detailed statistics and text summaries, as well as full coverage of this year's exciting pennant race.
-Which team became the first in history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series?
-Who was the only player to pinch-hit a World Series home run?
-Who became the first to manage five straight pennant winners, and in what years did he do it?
-What 1970s team won a pennant with only one player hitting more than twenty homers, no player driving in eighty runs, no player stealing even ten bases, no player hitting .300, and only one pitcher winning more than fifteen games?
The answers to these and thousands of other baseball questions can be found in this fully up-to-date, fact-filled reference book.
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The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004 covers the histo...)
The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2004 covers the history of every player, every team, and every season from 1902 through 2003, with detailed statistics and text summaries, as well as full coverage of this year's exciting pennant race.
· Which team became the first in history to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the World Series?
· Who was the only player to hit a pinch-hit World Series home run?
· Who became the first to manage five straight pennant winners, and in what years did he do it?
· What 1970s team won a pennant with only one player hitting more than twenty homers, no player driving in eighty runs, no player stealing even ten bases, no player hitting .300, and only one pitcher winning more than fifteen games?
The answers to these and thousands of other baseball questions can be found in this fully up-to-date, fact-filled reference book.
(Beginning in 1972, this book contains complete rosters an...)
Beginning in 1972, this book contains complete rosters and statistics for every player and every year, including the current 1996 season and Super Bowl XXXI in January, 1997. Complete rosters for every team, year by year, scores for every game played, 1972-96, lifetime stats for players, comprehensive all-time leaders sections in offense and defense categories, text recalling great performances, key trades and personalities, and more are featured.
David Samuel Neft, American Marketing professional. Served with United States Army, 1961-1963. Member American Association Public Opinion Research, Professional Football Research Association (Vice-President 1985-1987), Society for American Baseball Research.
Background
Neft was born in New York City, received a Bachelor, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy (Statistics) from Columbia University, and worked as chief statistician for the polling company Louis Harris & Associates from 1963 to 1965.
Education
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1957;
Master of Business Administration, Columbia University, 1959;
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1962.
Career
The task took more than three years, as Neft and a team of researchers travelled across the country to fill the gaping holes in baseball"s statistical and biographical records. The resulting work was published in 1969 by the Macmillan Publishing Company. Although the official title was "The Baseball Encyclopedia", the massive book was generally referred to as "".
lieutenant was a quantum leap from early baseball encyclopedias, with a breadth and depth that far exceeded anything that had come before lieutenant
Neft left Imperial Chemical Industries in 1970, spending the next few years developing dice-based sports games for Sports Illustrated Enterprises. The company produced a new baseball encyclopedia in 1974 called "The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball".
That same year, they published groundbreaking new encyclopedias for football (The Sports Encyclopedia: Pro Football) and basketball (The Sports Encyclopedia: Pro Basketball). The baseball encyclopedia has been updated each spring, with the 27th edition appearing in 2007.
Seventeen editions of the football encyclopedia were published (the last in 1998).
The basketball encyclopedia was published until 1992, a total of five editions. Beside this line of encyclopedias, Neft edited more than a dozen other sports books In 1978, Neft & Cohen published Pro Football: The Early Years, a startling new look at professional football before 1933.
Because the National Football League hadn"t kept official statistics in its first thirteen seasons, knowledge of the period was extremely limited.
Neft led a team of researchers that meticulously reconstructed the statistical record using box scores, play-by-play accounts, and game stories from local newspapers. The result was a remarkable new look at the teams and players from the NFL"s earliest seasons.
Neft returned to Harris, then owned by, in 1977, serving as executive vice president In 1985, he became "s director of research, a position he held until his retirement in 2002.
He is widely recognized within the newspaper industry as a market research expert.
Served with United States Army, 1961-1963. Member American Association Public Opinion Research, Professional Football Research Association (Vice-President 1985-1987), Society for American Baseball Research.
Connections
Married Naomi Silver, May 31, 1964. Children: Michael Louis, Deborah Isabel.